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Prairie Home Invasion

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Released
  
March 24, 1994

Length
  
62:00

Artist
  
Jello Biafra

Label
  
Alternative Tentacles

Recorded
  
1994

Producer
  
Marshall Lawless

Release date
  
24 March 1994

Genres
  
Punk rock, Cowpunk

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Prairie Home Invasion is an album released by Jello Biafra with Mojo Nixon in 1994. The title is a play on the popular public radio program A Prairie Home Companion and the Ice-T album Home Invasion. There was also a single released for "Will The Fetus Be Aborted?" which included an outtake from this album titled "The Lost World" and a parody of Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy Breaky Heart" titled "Achy Rakey Heart" as B-Sides.

Contents

Buy my snake oil 0001 wmv mojo nixon and jello biafra


Track listing

  1. "Buy My Snake Oil" - 9:07
  2. "Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)" - 3:12 (Darryl Cherney cover)
  3. "Convoy in the Sky" - 3:33 (The Willis Brothers cover)
  4. "Atomic Power" - 3:06 (Fred Kirby cover)
  5. "Are You Drinking With Me Jesus?" - 3:10 (Lou and Peter Berryman cover)
  6. "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" - 4:01 (Phil Ochs cover)
  7. "Burgers of Wrath" - 3:51
  8. "Nostalgia for an Age That Never Existed" - 4:56
  9. "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster" - 3:48
  10. "Mascot Mania" - 4:50
  11. "Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down" - 2:38 (to the tune of Old Joe Clark)
  12. "Will the Fetus Be Aborted?" - 3:42 (to the tune of Will the Circle Be Unbroken?)
  13. "Plastic Jesus" - 4:31 (Ed Rush and George Cromarty cover)

Personnel

  • Sean McCarthy - Bass
  • Mike "Wild" Middleton - Percussion, Background Vocals, Drums
  • Marty Muse - Pedal Steel
  • Ted Roddy - Harmonica
  • Stuart Sullivan - Engineer, Mixing
  • Marshall Lawless - Producer
  • Sandra Patyk - Background Vocals
  • Amy Boone - Background Vocals
  • Cindy Yates - Background Vocals
  • Deborah Kelly - Background Vocals
  • Louis Jay Meyers - Banjo
  • Danny Barnes - Dobro, Electric Guitar
  • Pete Gordon - Organ, Background Vocals, Accordion, Piano
  • Champ Hood - Fiddle
  • Evan Johns - Guitar
  • Don Leady - Electric Guitar
  • Jello Biafra - Vocals, Photography, Main Performer
  • Mojo Nixon - Banjo, Harmonica, Tambourine, Vocals, Guitar

    • Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster

    This particular song deals with a disaster at a chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. The plant caught fire, killing 25 workers and injuring 40 after they were trapped behind locked fire doors.

    Songs

    1Buy My Snake OilMojo Nixon & the Toadliquors9:07
    2Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)Mojo Nixon & the Toadliquors3:12
    3Convoy in the SkyMojo Nixon & the Toadliquors3:33

    References

    Prairie Home Invasion Wikipedia
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